My ex worked for both the APA Dr. Helen speaks of, and its “sister” organization known as the “little APA” (American Psychological Association). Dysfunctional snakepits both.
The single creepiest thing about the “big” APA was one of its past Presidents: Dr. John Money. No, seriously, Dr. Money. Dr. Money (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Money) was the monster who insisted that a Canadian male infant who lost his penis in a botched circumcision should be raised as a girl, simply because that creepy old asshat of a shrink was convinced that gender roles could be assigned like the flipping of a switch. The young “boy/girl” (“Brenda”) proceeded to live a horrible nightmare of a life that finally ended in suicide, but not before his travails were widely publicized on TV and in print.
The APA in general has shown the same kind of depraved indifference to human nature as Dr. Money, and has had an outsized and damaging influence on American social policy. Which circle of Dante’s Hell do they belong in?
